Two important questions:
1. Do you think this court upholds a national gerrymander ban without a Constitutional amendment?
2. What is it going to take to turn this Mets season around?
Cosplay as Ysanne Isard?
There aren’t many US-flagged ships in international service - according to one source it’s less than half a percent of international shipping. Lots of shipping to and from the US is done on flag-of-convenience ships. www.atsinc.com/blog/what-is...
I suspect the subsequent increase in beef prices would send waves of suburbanites back to the GOP.
Again, there’s a difference between “was this attack justifiable” and “was this an act of piracy”.
1. There’s a difference between the legality of the conflict (or the state of a ceasefire) and the nature of the attack. None of that changes that the US and Iran are in an open military conflict.
2. I was talking about the US vessel.
3. Huh? Did the US crew start selling off the cargo?
So you were OK with letting a candidate that was worse for most of the areas you care about win?
In roughly descending order:
1. Flagged merchant vessels of combatant nations are traditionally considered legitimate targets.
2. This was a naval vessel operating under orders from their chain of command.
3. It wasn’t done for the profit of the crew or ship owners.
This isn’t piracy. It’s an act of war. It may be a violation of this nebulous truce we’re currently working on. It may also be an escalation in the class of targets that the US is attacking. But it’s not piracy.
C’mon…you’re gonna tell me this wouldn’t be on CBS? The network of JAG and a few dozen versions of NCIS?
Same as Ginsburg I suppose.
If FIFA is mandating extra security for the transit system - and explicitly monopolizing it at some points - they should pay for the impact. If not, I can see why states and cities are unwilling to absorb the costs.
Video isn’t as fast at sharing information as text is.
So…what happens if the US stops being the closest thing we have to world police?
I thought that white tunic was just a soldier’s uniform, not holy raiments. And I’m just holding a spear! Only people like that kook Tolwyn would think it was the Staff of Holy Light.
Was shoplifting the main cause of store closures, as some companies claimed back in 2022-23? No. Interest and rent hikes combined with online shopping were probably bigger contributors.
Is shoplifting enough of a problem to justify extra security in some stores? That’s a separate question.
Are some places locking up “ordinary” goods? Sure looks like it.
Are more places doing it than not, as you’re implying? I don’t know. I’d have to see statistics.
I’ve been listening. Other than my first post, our statements aren’t mutually exclusive.
Suburban northeast, admittedly closer to the rural edge of the suburbs than the urban core. I’ll also add that I usually shop at supermarkets or Costco, not drugstores or smaller grocery stores.
It’s really feeling like this phenomenon is tied to either urban areas or certain chains.
I haven’t seen a broad trend of all sorts of items like ordinary toothpaste or body wash being locked up. Perhaps it’s limited to certain locations or certain types of stores?
I’ve seen goods locked up before, but it was very specific products - either sensitive items (Sudafed or nicotine gum), small and expensive items (razor blades and tooth whitening products), and a few very specific things like formula. This was happening before Covid, though.
Is this store in an urban, suburban, or rural area?
Also - I was specifically talking about toothpaste. People seem to think I’m saying they haven’t been locking anything up at all.
I haven’t seen it change much since pre-Covid times.
There are a few possibilities here:
1. It’s happening but very dependent on location and/or store type.
2. People are misremembering the start of the trend & blaming it on post-Covid changes.
That is a bit much. Is it possible this was the only place they had for the body wash? I.e. this was a shelf that was previously used for something else & they moved body wash there because of a shelf re-shuffle.
I said I wasn’t seeing toothpaste locked up. You added a bunch of products and I agreed that one of them (baby formula) was regularly secured. That’s all - or do you always resort to insults this quickly?
Heck, I wouldn’t even say formula refutes the point - it’s been locked up long before Covid.
You added products to the list (specifically formula). Would you prefer I have ignored those other items?
I haven’t seen ordinary toothpaste or laundry detergent locked up in my east-coast suburb for ages. I don’t shop for diapers so I couldn’t answer that, but I know formula has been a high-theft item for ages so that one doesn’t surprise me.
What? This just isn’t happening.
Good for you! Hope the date went well.